Global change in brain state during spontaneous and forced walk in Drosophila is composed of combined activity patterns of different neuron classes

S Aimon, KY Cheng, J Gjorgjieva, ICG Kadow - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
This paper expands on prior work by using whole-brain calcium imaging in Drosophila to
examine how spontaneous and forced walking and turning affect neural activity in the brain …

The role of food odor in invertebrate foraging

N Zjacic, M Scholz - Genes, Brain and Behavior, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Foraging for food is an integral part of animal survival. In small insects and invertebrates,
multisensory information and optimized locomotion strategies are used to effectively forage …

[HTML][HTML] Linking neural circuits to the mechanics of animal behavior in Drosophila larval locomotion

H Kohsaka - Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The motions that make up animal behavior arise from the interplay between neural circuits
and the mechanical parts of the body. Therefore, in order to comprehend the operational …

Memory-multi-fractional Brownian motion with continuous correlations

W Wang, M Balcerek, K Burnecki, AV Chechkin… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
We propose a generalization of the widely used fractional Brownian motion (FBM), memory-
multi-FBM (MMFBM), to describe viscoelastic or persistent anomalous diffusion with time …

Adaptation of Drosophila larva foraging in response to changes in food resources

ME Wosniack, D Festa, N Hu, J Gjorgjieva, J Berni - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
All animals face the challenge of finding nutritious resources in a changing environment. To
maximize lifetime fitness, the exploratory behavior has to be flexible, but which behavioral …

Optimal foraging strategies can be learned

G Muñoz-Gil, A López-Incera, LJ Fiderer… - New Journal of …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The foraging behavior of animals is a paradigm of target search in nature. Understanding
which foraging strategies are optimal and how animals learn them are central challenges in …

A survey on reservoir computing and its interdisciplinary applications beyond traditional machine learning

H Zhang, DV Vargas - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reservoir computing (RC), first applied to temporal signal processing, is a recurrent neural
network in which neurons are randomly connected. Once initialized, the connection …

The evolutionary maintenance of Lévy flight foraging

W Campeau, AM Simons, B Stevens - PLoS computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Lévy flight is a type of random walk that characterizes the behaviour of many natural
phenomena studied across a multiplicity of academic disciplines; within biology specifically …

[PDF][PDF] Reinforcement learning links spontaneous cortical dopamine impulses to reward

C Foo, A Lozada, J Aljadeff, Y Li, JW Wang… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
In their pioneering study on dopamine release, Romo and Schultz speculated"... that the
amount of dopamine released by unmodulated spontaneous impulse activity exerts a tonic …

Functional advantages of Lévy walks emerging near a critical point

MS Abe - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
A special class of random walks, so-called Lévy walks, has been observed in a variety of
organisms ranging from cells, insects, fishes, and birds to mammals, including humans …